San Diego County Biographies
M. M. WARNER
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In Acworth, one of the old New Hampshire towns settled before the
Revolution, was the home of the Warners and Sladers. Far back in the early
history of the town we find the names of members of these two families
frequently occurring as town clerks, justices of the peace, selectmen, and
representatives to the State Legislature. They came mostly from Massachusetts,
and among the list of names we find that of Nathaniel Warner, settled in Acworth
in 1805, and married to Miss Lucy Slader. These were the parents of the subject
of this sketch, Mr. M. M. Warner. He was born in Acworth, October 30, 1830. His
parents had a family of three children, of whom he is the only survivor. He was
educated in the public schools of his native town, and when old enough engaged
in business with his father, who was a merchant of that place. Twenty-five years
of his life was spent in that place in the general merchandise business, when he
removed to Chapel Hill, Texas, where he engaged in business. His health giving
out, and the war coming on, he sold out and returned to his old home, and
continued in business there until 1867, when he removed to Fremont, Nebraska,
where he continued his mercantile business for ten years. His health giving out,
he retired and engaged in the propagation of small fruits and trees. His health
not improving, and being physically a perfect wreck, in September, 1884, he came
to San Jacinto, California, and purchased forty acres of land on the mesa, two
and one-half miles west of the city. The land is well located, rich soil, and is
easily worked. Here he built his brick house and a good barn, and went to work
planting trees. The first year he planted fifteen acres of deciduous trees, and
they are now fine, large, bearing trees. There are about 2,000 trees�pears,
peaches and apricots--and they have yielded large quantities of choice fruit
without any irrigation whatever. The second year he planted twenty-five acres
more in trees and vines, and he now has a very valuable fruit farm. His health
has returned, and he has accomplished all this himself, as he does his own work.
Like a good son, he followed in the footsteps of his father, and he, too,
married a Slader, a daughter of one of the pioneers of Acworth, her given name
being Carrie D., born December 31, 1834. She is an amiable lady. Mr. Warner's
close attention to his business during his long life has retarded him from
holding places of public trust. He is, nevertheless, a competent and agreeable
gentleman, and with his energy and skill is showing younger men how to raise
tons of grapes and dried fruit. Such a man is a blessing to any country.
SOURCE: An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower
California� Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. p.- 359-360